If you just can't get enough of pics...

I have started a website dedicated solely to pictures of Zoey..

http://www.zoeyelizabethmahan.shutterfly.com/

Although...new pics may not be up for a while because my camera was stolen from my car..in my very own driveway!!! It was in Zoey's diaper bag and some criminal had their dirty fingers all through Zoey's bag...diapers were thrown all over my car...I wish I had left a stinky one in there for them to sink their fingers into...oh well, sigh...

A Message From Zoey's Grandmother....

Zoey's grandmother...Grandma Sheila (my most awesome mom)...wanted me to be sure and tell everyone how thankful she is to have Zoey as her granddaughter!

I have to agree...we are all so thankful to have Zoey come into our lives and brighten our days. Every day that I see her beautiful smile is counted as an amazing day in my book....

Love!!!

How Time Flies!!

Zoey's visit to Hopscotch...


Mommy and Zoey

Zoey enjoying psssghettit!!!

Zoey gives Gracie a kiss while they play.

Zoey and Gracie playing...

Zoey doing her favorite move...

I can't believe we've been home for two months with precious Zoey! It has been a while since I've updated because, well, I just don't have a lot of free time to be writing blogs!! :)

She is amazing, amazing, amazing and has grown in leaps and bounds since we brought her home. We truly are a family and I now wonder what we ever did before her with all our free time????

Zoey is 8mths old now, and crawling like a madwoman. Today I was sweeping and she just followed me around the whole house as I swept trying to catch the piles of dog hair.... She has 8!! teeth and is eating pretty much anything she can get her hands on (including the dog hair...haha...)! She is saying "Dada..." but we are unsure of if that is Daddy or doggie (much like our friend Lydia!)...pretty much everything is dada...

She is also saying "Kika" which we think is "Kitty Cat"...she adores our cat Zelda and gets so excited when Zelda is in the room! I'm still holding out for Mama...but I know that will come....

Right now her favorite thing to do us pull up on the couch and scream at us. It cracks Scott and I up. She pulls up, looks at us, gets a huge smile, then opens that beautiful little cupid mouth and lets out a great, "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!", then she breaks down in giggles. I love it and I love her.

This past week we've worked on getting Zoey to get herself to sleep in her crib. She had been falling asleep in our arms, then going to the crib, then to our bed at about 2am. It has been a great week and she is quickly growing accustomed to her crib.

We first tried Elizabeth Pantley's "No Cry Sleep Solution"...we tried that for about 5 weeks with no luck. Finally, at the recommendation of the pediatrician and against my own feelings we got Richard Ferber's newest edition of "Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems".

I was really worried about the Ferber method, with all the attachment issues of adoption. However, his book made alot of really good points and I was reassured because it wasn't the "cry it out" method Dr. Spock recommended and therefore the generations of parents before me all recommended. Actually, it was very easy and Zoey did beautifully. There is NO WAY I was going to let her lay in the crib and cry....she did fuss the first few nights, but only for about 5 minutes.

Now we have a great bedtime routine, and she is usually laying her head in my lap as Daddy reads, ready to go to sleep...she then goes right to sleep in her crib with a smile on her face. If she wakes up during the night she now gets herself back to sleep without me having to go in there and doesn't even cry!!! I do miss our special nighttime cuddling, but I think both she and I are getting better nights of sleep now....and we now cuddle in the mornings for a little while instead!